By Calvin Chapman
THE long overdue and anticipated Annual General Meeting and Elections of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) that was scheduled for yesterday afternoon at Olympic House, Lilliendaal, was eventually pushed back by seven days to March 21st.

This was decided after the GOA’s incumbent head, K.A. Juman-Yassin, identified an issue with the signature of the letter that gave notice of the AGM.

The initial deliberations lasted the better part of an hour and the solution was to make assistant General Secretary of the GOA, Deion Nurse, the acting General Secretary, which will allow him to sign the official notice of AGM and elections.

The elected GS, Hector Edwards, has not been resident in Guyana for approximately two and a half years, hence, the notice couldn’t be signed as is required by the constitution of the GOA for the AGM and elections to be legal.

K.A. Juman-Yassin was of the opinion that the entire process should be delayed more than seven days but the executive majorly disagreed.

In the presence of the media, an emergency council meeting was held yesterday instead of the AGM, and President of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA), Cristy Campbell, motioned for Nurse to be given the powers of the General Secretary. This motion was seconded by President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle.

The majority of affiliate representatives of the GOA present at Olympic House yesterday were vocal about their feelings that time was being wasted and made it clear that the primary job as sport administrators is to serve the athletes and help the youths achieve great things.

K.A. Juman-Yassin has served as GOA head for close to three decades. He will not be able to run for another term following a decision which was voted on by council members. President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe, is tipped to be the new head of the GOA.